Vilde
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vilde is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name shortened from Alvhilde, a variant of Alfhild.
- NONorway1 in 584◐
- DKDenmark1 in 5.1K
- SESweden1 in 8.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12K ●
- Sources
- 77 ●
- 1 in 584 ◐
across 8 countries
1.8K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Meaning & origin●
a female given name shortened from Alvhilde, a variant of Alfhild
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #131 | 9,356△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 584 | 33K | Vilde | 77 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,258△ | 159 rec. | 1 in 8.1K | 1.3K | Vilde | 8 |
| DK Denmark | #804 | 1,150△ | 22 rec. | 1 in 5.1K | 1.1K | Vilde | 18 |
| BR Brazil | — | 162 | — | 1 in 1.3M | 162 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 63 | 37 rec. | — | — | Vilde | 27 |
| FI Finland | — | 25△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 223K | 41 | Vilde | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 24 | 20 rec. | — | — | Vilde | 11 |
| GH Ghana | — | 10 | 12 rec. | — | — | Vilde | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | 12 rec. | — | listed | Vilde | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 7△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 5.5M | 7 | Vilde | 8 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2 | 2 rec. | 1 in 941K | 2 | Vilde | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 0 rec. | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | 2 |
Roughly 9.4K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 584). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Norwegian Bokmål33K78%
- Danish2.6K6%
- Norwegian2.3K5%
- Portuguese2.1K5%
- English6442%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 33,302 | 78% |
| Danish | 2,555 | 6% |
| Norwegian | 2,269 | 5% |
| Portuguese | 2,082 | 5% |
| English | 644 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Vilde is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, to make (someone) wild.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, past of vilja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Vilde är ett namn som i sen tid bildats från adjektivet vild (= ’den vilde’). Som kvinno namn kan det även vara lånat från Norge där det har varit vanligt sedan 1960-talet. Namnet ses där som en kortform av namnet Alvilde.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Swedish, A savage, someone from the wilderness.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Obsolete form of vile.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1973 | 4 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 13 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1985 | 16 |
| 1986 | 28 |
| 1987 | 23 |
| 1988 | 36 |
| 1989 | 53 |
| 1990 | 72 |
| 1991 | 136 |
| 1992 | 231 |
| 1993 | 253 |
| 1994 | 353 |
| 1995 | 287 |
| 1996 | 342 |
| 1997 | 389 |
| 1998 | 405 |
| 1999 | 365 |
| 2000 | 314 |
| 2001 | 310 |
| 2002 | 352 |
| 2003 | 330 |
| 2004 | 275 |
| 2005 | 268 |
| 2006 | 292 |
| 2007 | 311 |
| 2008 | 279 |
| 2009 | 287 |
| 2010 | 273 |
| 2011 | 235 |
| 2012 | 253 |
| 2013 | 234 |
| 2014 | 255 |
| 2015 | 205 |
| 2016 | 222 |
| 2017 | 176 |
| 2018 | 180 |
| 2019 | 242 |
| 2020 | 193 |
| 2021 | 200 |
| 2022 | 180 |
| 2023 | 210 |
| 2024 | 170 |
| 2025 | 167 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 52 years between 1965–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Vilde Bjerkeb. 1960NONorwegian actor and writer
- Vilde Heggemb. 1983NONorwegian writer
- Vilde Frangb. 1986NONorwegian classical violinist
- Vilde Ingstadb. 1994NONorwegian handball player
- Vilde Ingeborg Johansenb. 1994NONorwegian handball player
- Vilde Bøe Risab. 1995NONorwegian association football player
- Vilde Hasundb. 1997NOassociation football player
- Vilde Marie Zeinerb. 1999NONorwegian actress
- Vilde Nilsenb. 2001NONorwegian Paralympian
- Vilde Pettersenb. 2003NONorwegian radio personality
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 230 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vilde?
- We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Vilde (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Vilde have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 9.4 thousand people bear Vilde in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vilde.
- Where is Vilde most common?
- Vilde is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 584 people carrying it.
- How common is Vilde compared with other names?
- In Norway, Vilde is the 131st most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
- Is Vilde a male or female name?
- Vilde is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Vilde mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name shortened from Alvhilde, a variant of Alfhild
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vilde” — the 131st most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.